Short abstract of the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the diseases of the ear / by William Kramer.

  • Kramer, Wilhelm, 1801-1875.
Date:
1862
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    still noAV, are to be drawn to make the otalgia cease altogether, and instantaneously. III. Disease of the Internal Ear. 1. Acute Inflammation of the Labyrinth, Diagnosis.—Violent and feverish pain, appearing suddenly in the depth of one ear, combined with cere- bral s5unj)toms of the most dangerous kind. The auditory ]3assage is healthy; the membrane of the drum mjured, lacerated ; the cavity of the drum filled -with blood and sero-purulent matter. Prognosis.—Quite hopeless. Treatment.— The most powerful antiphlogistic re- medies did not yet prevent the fatal issue of such extremely rare cases. 2. Chronic Inflammation of the Labyrinth. Diagnosis.— Inflammation of the perforated mem- brane of the drum, of old standing, is joined, more or less suddenly, by dull permanent pain in the ear, the bone of the temple, the mastoid cells, and the back part of the head. This pain increases mostly by all motion of the head, chiefly by knocking with the knuckles against the just-mentioned bones, by drivmg over stones, &c. The perforated membrane of the drum and the lining membrane of the cavity of the t3nnpanum are dark-red, swollen, very tender at the slightest touch; caries of the bone in the middle ear is discovered by the buttoned silver probe. Complete deafness, giddiness, drowsiness, some sup- purative fever, paralysis of the corresponding side of the face, &c., precede death.